A contractor for the N.C. Department of Transportation will be closing a section of U.S. 158 (also known as the Beach Bypass) in Nags Head starting Monday to remove and replace the drainage pipe under the roadway. The highway will be closed for a roughly half-mile section between East Epstein Street and South Seachase Drive. […]
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Video from U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet At approximately 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, February 7, the U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet received a report of a disabled vessel, the F/V STUBBORN ONE, which was located approximately 30NM due southeast of the Oregon Inlet sea buoy. Conditions on the Oregon Inlet bar warranted […]
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The League of Women Voters of Dare County is holding an essay contest for all high school seniors in Dare County during the month of March in honor of Women’s History Month. The contest will open on March 1st and close March 31st 2023. Contestants will answer the question, “Why Should I vote?” in a […]
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The N.C. 12 Task Force met in Manteo on Tuesday, Feb. 7, to review a subcommittee report on proposed solutions and priorities for seven vulnerable stretches of N.C. Highway 12 on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. The Task Force was formed in 2021 to address the routine flooding of the 67-mile stretch of N.C. Highway 12 […]
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Ocracoke Island is a resort community and needs good EMT service. That was the message at the Hyde County Board of Commissioners Monday night by islanders Scott Bradley and Ronny Vann O’Neal, the latter of whom related a concerning situation that happened over the weekend. O’Neal explained that an island woman was in pain and […]
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The unexpected passing of Richard “Rick” Graf, Jr. Monday, February 6, 2023, at the Colington home has been announced by Rick’s wife, Karen Graf. Rick, as he was best known, was 71 and born in Long Island, New York. He was the son of Richard Graf and Eleanor Meyer Graf who preceded him in death […]
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The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission Commercial Resource Fund Committee and the Funding Committee for the N.C. Commercial Fishing Resource Fund will meet jointly by web conference on March 1 at 6 p.m. Members of the public may listen to the meeting by phone or listen and view presentations online. A meeting agenda and WebEx link […]
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On February 6, 2023, at approximately 10:43 p.m., Deputies working the C-District conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle that had turned onto Buxton Back Road from N.C. Highway 12. During the traffic stop a DCSO K-9 was deployed and alerted to the presence of a controlled substance. The vehicle was searched, and an amount […]
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It takes more than captains and deckhands to run the nation’s second-largest state-run ferry system. On Feb.16, the North Carolina Ferry Division will recruit for those behind-the-scenes tradespeople at a career event at the State Shipyard in Manns Harbor. The event will include tours of the shipyard at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., allowing participants […]
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The Cape Hatteras Elementary School (CHES) and Cape Hatteras Secondary School (CHSS) recently received a grant of chess sets, a Chess-Steps instructor’s guide and student workbooks, and ChessKid Gold accounts from the North Carolina-based Indermaur Chess Foundation. The Indermaur Chess Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and U.S. Chess Federation Affiliate that helps parents, teachers, […]
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